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Re: [Observium] ping alerts
by Redish, Graham (PPPO/CONTR) 14 May '14

14 May '14

Tom, Is there a good write up on the new alerting system? I've seen various generic / site specific examples but no documentation that shows me what I can alert on and how to go about setting it up. If you could point me in the right direction or give me some tips I'd appreciate it. >In the new alerting system you can differentiate between snmp is down and ping is down (device_status_type will be either 'ping' or 'snmp'). >Tom >On 13/05/2014 01:09, Adam Armstrong wrote: > I question the existence of a valid scenario where snmpd can't reply > to sysDescr but the server isn't considered broken. > > You're also talking about the /old/ alerting system, which is > deprecated and universally hated and shunned. :> > > adam. > > On 2014-05-12 17:58, Joshua Elson wrote: >> Is there a way to disable alerts for ping when snmpd isn't accessible? >> We get lots of false alerts when servers are under high load. We >> basically just want to be notified if a host is actually down (not >> pinging) and not when snmpd chokes out. >> >> Thanks! >> >> JOSH ELSON | Linux Systems Administrator MAXLINEAR | >> www.maxlinear.com [1] >> 2051 Palomar Airport Road, Suite 100 | Carlsbad, CA 92011 >> >> ------------------------- >> >> This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain >> information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise >> protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended >> recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic mail or its >> contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the >> intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received >> this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail >> so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the >> original message (including any attachments) in its entirety. >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] http://www.maxlinear.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium ------------------------------ End of observium Digest, Vol 46, Issue 30 *****************************************

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troubleshooting sonicwall reporting failures
by Josh Bierman 14 May '14

14 May '14

Hello, Im having an issue with my sonicwall firewalls. they show 15 minute blank spots in reporting. Primary and fail-over devices, at different times. nothing stands out in the logs, and no one is screaming that internet was down for 15 minutes. Suggestions on getting to the bottom of this? is it just a graphing failure? (see attached screen shot) [image: Inline image 1] Joshua Bierman Director of Technology Yeshivat Noam

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Upgrading to Observium Professional
by Jeremy Alberts 14 May '14

14 May '14

Hallo, I am thinking about upgrading to Observium Professional. Before I do this however, I was wondering if someone could answer a question. At the moment I am using Observium to monitor all my Cisco switches and Windows servers. The thing I miss the most in Observium Open Source edition is not being able to receive alerts on the following: § Alerting Memory at certain thresholds (Windows machines) § alerting CPU at certain thresholds (Windows machines) § Alerting disk I/O at certain thresholds (Windows machines) Now I thing this is possible with the Professional edition. Can someone confirm that this is the case? With kind regards, Jeremy

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ping alerts
by Joshua Elson 13 May '14

13 May '14

Is there a way to disable alerts for ping when snmpd isn't accessible? We get lots of false alerts when servers are under high load. We basically just want to be notified if a host is actually down (not pinging) and not when snmpd chokes out. Thanks! Josh Elson | Linux Systems Administrator MaxLinear | www.maxlinear.com<http://www.maxlinear.com/> 2051 Palomar Airport Road, Suite 100 | Carlsbad, CA 92011 [Description: Description: http://wiki/download/attachments/1704274/Maxlinear+Logo.png?version=1&modif…] ________________________________ This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic mail or its contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety.

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Disk i/o statistics
by Fabrice Charlier 12 May '14

12 May '14

Hi all, We are currently moving our observium server from an old community edition (0.13.10.4585) to a new powerful server running Professional edition (0.14.4.5391). On the new one, all disk i/o statistics for server devices don't appear in the web interface. After some research, I found that rrd files for disks i/o are not generated. For example, same server monitored by old instance: http://pastebin.com/gF7RA9bU and on new one: http://pastebin.com/Y9ePqyst Maybe I'm missing some new configuration option? Thanks, Fabrice

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Add device failing
by Robert Williams 12 May '14

12 May '14

Hi, Just tried to add a new device (r5478) but it’s failing with no feedback, even at the command line. root@OBSERVIUM:/opt/observium # php add_device.php server.name.domain Observium v0.14.5.5478 Add Device(s) Try to add server.name.domain: Trying v2c community xyz ... root@OBSERVIUM:/opt/observium# It was ok a couple of days ago and I’m not sure how to try to diagnose this further as there is no feedback either at the command line or the web interface (which just says “Trying v2c community xyx …” the same as the command line does). To rule out a duff device I removed an existing working device and tried to re-add it. Fails with the same error also and I’m unable to re-add that device. Any pointers please? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Calix E7-2 port disabling
by Crozier, Doug 11 May '14

11 May '14

I have 14 Calix E7-2 OLTs in this environment that I want to monitor. The first two I added to Observium(PE 5447) showed up with over 1000 ports each. I'd like to disable polling/alerting on all but a handful of ports on each of these devices. I used the "All" button on the device's Ports tab to get this done, but it only disables the first 333 ports. Same behavior on the second OLT. The remaining 900+ ports are all still enabled for polling. Manually selecting the slider for 50 or so of the remaining ports to disable them fails to take effect after clicking "Save". Is there a way to disable the remaining ports, then enable the few that I am interested in? Thanks Doug

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dpkg agent oddness
by Robert Williams 10 May '14

10 May '14

Hi All, I’ve just added the dpkg agent script for the agent to a server, it already had other agents on it which are all working OK (apache, ntp etc.). Now, when I ./dpkg locally it gives the package list just fine. However, Observium shows the package list with some extra items at the top which read <blank> and “Fatal error:” [cid:image001.png@01CF6C41.93B4FDE0] Now on every poll (manual or scheduled) I also get the event log entry “System Arch -> Directive” [cid:image002.png@01CF6C41.F2135120] This dpkg script is working fine on all the other hosts I run it on, and everything else is working fine on this particular host apart from this element of the dpkg script. If I run the agent module in debug then I notice that at the end of the script I get: Fatal error: Directive 'allow_call_time_pass_reference' is no longer available in PHP in Unknown on line 0 Fatal error: Directive 'allow_call_time_pass_reference' is no longer available in PHP in Unknown on line 0 ) So I guess this is what is being interpreted by the poller as a ‘package’ and the ‘architecture’ of the system. However, I do not get this error when I run it locally, only when it’s run from Observium remotely. So - Any ideas or suggestions what to try next? Target host is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (3.13.0-24-generic x86_64) and I have several others running 14.04 which are polling fine as far as I’m aware. Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Relative times not showing properly...
by Michael Loftis 09 May '14

09 May '14

I'm actually not certain when this started to happen as I've noticed it before, but it seemed like it was just in old events, but now, I've noticed that all relative times are getting computed incorrectly, they'll all show like "364 days, 17h 13m 3s" when you hover for an actual time (system event log particularly) the timestamps are right...it's something going wonk doing date math I'm guessing... 0.14.5.5458 - php 5.4.4 (just svn updated to make sure it wasn't fixed) not sure what else is relevant... -- "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." -- Samuel Butler

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weekly/monthly reporting tool?
by Joshua Elson 09 May '14

09 May '14

Hi all, I was wondering if there is any sort of reporting tool for Observium? We are looking to get a weekly and/or monthly break down of CPU and memory for all 100 or so of our servers. It has become tedious to go through each server one by one each time we need to gather all these details. As always, thanks in advance! Josh ________________________________ This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic mail or its contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety.

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Ruckus ZoneDirector
by Eduardo Schoedler 09 May '14

09 May '14

Hi, Do you plan to provide the discovery of the Ruckus ZoneDirector? Thanks. Regards, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Alerts only with alert checker
by Eduardo Schoedler 09 May '14

09 May '14

Hi, We are using Observium Pro, congratulations, it's a great tool! But I'm having trouble with alerts and need your help. I have created an alert check for bgp peers, and is ok. But Observium still want send alerts from himself :). How to disable it? Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Add disk status to Buffalo Terastation
by Stefano Cordio 09 May '14

09 May '14

Hey guys, I'd like to implement an addition for my NAS box, a Buffalo Terastation. This NAS sends a daily report about the available space and the state of the disks. Observium already grabs details about the space, so I'd like to also add support to disk status/diagnostics (I already have the needed MIB files). The following is a MIB snippet: ------------------------------------------------------ nasDiskStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX INTEGER { notSupport(-1), normal(1), array1(2), array2(3), standby(4), degrade(5), remove(6), standbyRemoved(7), degradeRemoved(8), removeRemoved(9) } MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The state of local disks. This value is read from 'diskx' line in file /etc/melco/diskinfo. notSupport(-1) indicates the disk slot is not exist. normal(1) indicates the disk is not part of RAID array. array1(2) indicates the disk is part of array1. array2(3) indicates the disk is part of array2. standby(4) indicates the disk is standby and power-off. degrade(5) indicates the disk has degraded and removed from array, and power-off. remove(6) indicates the disk has removed from array by user and power-off. standbyRemoved(7) indicates the disk is standby and removed from NAS. degradeRemoved(8) indicates the disk has degraded and removed from array and NAS. removeRemoved(9) indicates the disk has removed from array and NAS." ::= { nasDiskEntry 2 } ------------------------------------------------------ I'm not sure which is the best location in the device page for showing these informations. Could we consider these as a kind of sensor or is it something inventory-related? Actually I need a design advice. Would be really nice if you could also give me a pointer to a similar existing code. I strongly believe in learning by example :-) Thanks, Stefano

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Juniper vlans
by gregorcy 09 May '14

09 May '14

Hi, Our Juniper vlans are not showing up correctly. I am wondering if it is something we are doing or possibly a bug in the Juniper code. Here is an image of what we are seeing: http://i.imgur.com/d0MM7Z8.png Thanks for any help, -- Cheers, Brian Gregorcy IT Manager University of Utah Department of Chemical Engineering 801.585.7170

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Re: [Observium] Observium] weekly/monthly reporting tool?
by Adam Armstrong 08 May '14

08 May '14

We need to add filtering capability to this page so that it can be reduced to only the important entities. Adam. Martin Smith wrote:

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Selective Alerts?
by Hamilton, Kent 08 May '14

08 May '14

I'm new to Observium, and was playing with email alerting. Is there a way to selectively disable alerts? For example I'd like to disable over-under voltage alerts from systems. Even in my test set up which only includes 300 devices leaving those types of alerts enabled resulted in over 800 emails last night. -- [exegy_119x45_xparent]<http://www.exegy.com/> S. Kent Hamilton Senior Network Engineer 349 Marshall Ave | Suite 100 Saint Louis, MO 63119 US Phone: +1 314.218.3558 FAX: +1 314.218.3601 Email: KHamilton(a)Exegy.com<mailto:KHamilton@Exegy.com> ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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L2tp not creating interfaces
by Oliver Paget 08 May '14

08 May '14

Hi folks, wonderful product :):) I was just wondering if the L2tp section is in dev or is completed. I can't get it to work and as far as I have troubleshooted I can see that there are not any ports being picked up when my lns is scanned for this functionality to work. I haven't configured anything specific, it appears as you just snmp scan the device and it should pick the session tracking up for the l2tp tab. I can see everything else is working, am I missing something> Cheers, OJ

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Power Supplys
by Matthias Cramer 07 May '14

07 May '14

Dear List Is there a general Idea hos to handle power supplies in observium? Via a sensor seams somewhat wrong for me, because I do not get any voltage or similar readings, only presence and status info. What I like to do us to monitor power supplies for presence and failure especially of Brocade MLXe and ICX devices. Mib description of that is at page 116 (92) and on of the following document: http://www.brocadechina.com/download/fsx/Unified_IP_MIB_Oct2011_Reference.p… Also nice would be something similar for fans as staring on page 118 (94). Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zurich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Load monitoring
by Fabrice Charlier 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hi all, We would like to trigger an alarm when the load is too high on our servers monitored by observium. If I understand correctly this documentation page (*), it's not possible to create an alarm based on load? There is some plan to implement this option? Thanks, Fabrice (*) http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes

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Alert Checker in CE
by Jeremy Alberts 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hello, This question could have been asked a few times now, but I cant find the answer in the mailing list archive. My question is: Before the new release in April the alerting system was checked and in brackets 'Future Release'. In April the new CE release was released. Is the alerting system present in the new CE version? If so, how can I create alert checkers on for example storage? With kind regards, Jeremy Alberts

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Distro Script - CloudLinux
by Adriaan Smuts 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hi Guys, Can you please add CloudLinux to the /usr/bin/distro script? # uname -r 2.6.32-458.23.2.lve1.2.52.el6.x86_64 # /usr/bin/distro RedHat 6.5 http://www.cloudlinux.com/ Regards Adriaan Smuts Systems Administrator - Windows [file:///C:\Users\adriaan\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] ________________________________ Direct Line +27 21 464 9565 Reception 086 000 9500 Website www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/>

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Two question..
by Joarli Leandro [INITNET] 05 May '14

05 May '14

Hi, I updated my observium subs today and now I have two new troubles. First - In some devices, the temp1 show 39000ºC...in testing with observium agent, he show me 39º C. I run ./discovery.php -h none after the update. Second - All my servers show show me the services are down...how I configure this feature?? All servers i have, the ssh and http services are running. Regards -- Joarli Leandro Tel: (11) 4478-6171 jleandro(a)initnet.com.br

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cisco cbqos mib?
by Chip Pleasants 05 May '14

05 May '14

Is there support for the cisco cbqos mib? I see it in Sensors, but not sure if I need special config entries or not looking in the right place. Thanks, Chip

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Lost APC Outlet Graphs
by Nicholas Schmidt 03 May '14

03 May '14

I can't pinpoint exactly when it happened but I just noticed this after I updated to the latest subscriber version. I use APC PDUs which allows per outlet SNMP monitoring. Graphing of each outlet was working previously but it is no longer there. The device information is correct: APC Web/SNMP Management Card (MB:v3.8.6 PF:v5.1.4 PN:apc_hw05_aos_514.bin AF1:v5.1.2 AN1:apc_hw05_rpdu2g_512.bin MN:AP8681 HR:02 SN: ZA1248014109 MD:11/23/2012) RRDs of each outlet still exist in the RRD directory: sensor-power-apc-rPDU2OutletMeteredStatusPower.6.rrd sensor-power-apc-rPDU2OutletMeteredStatusPower.7.rrd sensor-power-apc-rPDU2OutletMeteredStatusPower.8.rrd sensor-power-apc-rPDU2OutletMeteredStatusPower.9.rrd But none of the graphs are present Voltage, Current, and Power graphs for each phase are still properly being graphed. Any help?

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How to upgrade the Community edition
by Jeremy Alberts 02 May '14

02 May '14

Hello, The old site had a 'howto' about updating the community edition. Where can I find it on the new site? kind regards, Jeremy

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